The waitress tonight didn’t write a single thing down. She asked everyone, one by one, for drink orders, entree orders, and salad-dressing preferences. She jumped around the table to whoever was ready next — not just going around clockwise.

Then she brought the plates in and placed them right in front of the correct people. Again, in random order.

Dessert went similarly — random sequence, dessert and coffee choices.

She never had to ask anyone to repeat or confirm anything. Zero errors the entire night. We were amazed.